Sea otter pups are born with a shaggy, light yellowish-brown coat of fur called lanugo, which is even thicker than an adult’s fur. The mother’s first task is to ensure the pup’s fur is ...

When the mother sea otter grooms her pup, she also blows air into the pup’s coat. Although baby sea otter fur is still growing, their smaller body mass means their fur provides greater buoyant ...

Fortunately, sea otter pups also have a thick and buoyant fur coat. The mother sea otter blows warm air into her pup’s fur, which helps to keep them warm and stay afloat while she’s away.

A Tlingit hunter's otter fur coat, the winner of this year's Bernard Ewell Innovation Award, bears a message inside. Sea otter coats, arresting jewelry among eye-catching art at 102nd Indian ...

SAVING THE SEA OTTER. Unlike most marine mammals, sea otters are primarily insulated by fur, not blubber. In fact they have the densest fur in the animal kingdom. Sadly that thick, resplendent coat ...

Just this month, actress Anya Taylor-Joy sported a large, cream-colored fur coat while out and about in NYC, and celebs like Jennifer Lopez, Sophia Bush and Ice Spice have donned coats with fur.

The orphaned sea otter who became a foster mother to 15 pups. By Malia Wollan No one knows how Rosa was orphaned in September 1999, in Santa Cruz County, Calif. She was nameless then, just 4 weeks ...

Sea otters have the densest fur of any animal on earth, with up to a million hairs per square inch (155,000 per sq cm). A human head, for comparison, has 700 hairs per sq in (110 per sq cm).

Sea otter fur has a million hairs per square inch, a fun fact that comes to us early in Eric Jay Dolin’s “Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World.” ...